The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

16 September 2025

Announcing Cookie Jar 2!

 

 

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant announces Cookie Jar 2, a pamphlet series of long-format arts writing, featuring four individually authored pamphlets by Hannah Black, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Johanna Fateman, and Minh Nguyen.

How does art fit into the life of a writer, as an object of study or as an object of desire? The four pamphlets that comprise Cookie Jar 2 offer a range of possibilities: in the diary pages of an art critic hitting the road with her punk band; in conversations about Vietnamese socialist realism amid romantic entanglement; in the relay of telepathic artworks by women considered peripheral, and men now canonized; and in a reckoning with the dehumanization of black and indigenous people by the early American circus industry. “Every encounter, no matter how strange or new, eventually reveals the patterns of possibility innate to the life before it,” writes Hannah Black in her essay for this volume, on the life and work of the artist Joseph Yoakum.

Cookie Jar is a pamphlet series of long-format arts writing produced by the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. The series is named after Warhol’s vast and weird collection of cookie jars scoured from flea markets, thrift stores, and estate sales. Each volume of the series highlights the various ways through which writing may yet encounter art.

Cookie Jar is free to read in all formats. Order, download, and enjoy all the pamphlets at cookiejar.artswriters.org.

—Pradeep Dalal and Shiv Kotecha, Editors

“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant